boissiere house study ceiling
Image by nicholaslaughlin
Detail of the study ceiling in the Boissiere House, 12 Queen's Park West, Port of Spain, Trinidad. The gesso work is supposed to have been done by the Italian craftsmen who also did the Red House ceilings. Note the trompe-l'oeil "marble".
Designed by architect Edward Bowen; built in 1904; owned by the Boissiere family for 104 years. Now for sale, and in peril of being torn down.
Ancient bath house
Image by Moriartys
Inside one of the bath houses, the ceilings were designed to prevent condensation from dripping down upon the bathers
York Minster Chapter House ceiling
Image by kaysgeog
The Chapter House dates from 1290 and designed as an octagonal chamber where the Canons of York could discuss policy. The vault is suspended and the painted ceiling dates from 1798.
Europe's largest Gothic cathedral built between the 1220s and the 1470s on the site of a Roman basilica and Norman church.
Minster website www.yorkminster.org/visiting/
Minster history 70.86.220.251/learning/the-minsters-history/
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